SRS..we cross posted...SRS: "There's no getting above the political fray, these days, without appearing to be rather mindless."

Quite the contrary..it is the mindless who feel the need to be told what to think.....Not very CREATIVE, either!! The best solutions have yet to come forward..or at least be given 'coverage'. This is because the 'news media' are also controlled, and working on behalf of the controlling manipulators..who also 'contribute' to political 'solutions(?)' to the problems created and exploited, by them in the first place.

For instance, once they figure out a way to charge for one person doing an act of kindness to another fellow human being, they will make a law, and charge a fee!...and demonize anyone doing just that, outside their stupid 'law'!......It takes just a frame of mind, to do unto others as you would have them do to you....even if the 'law' gets in the way!!!

This country was founded where its citizens could do as they wished, as long as it did not infringe on the liberties and freedoms of another human being. the central government was supposed to defend our borders, and protect us, so we would have the freedom to do just that, while pursuing our own goals, hopefully productive. as it stands now, the government that is suppose to be protecting our freedoms is in everybody's shit, from cradle to grave. government needs to 'get back down'..and stop restricting US from the exercising, those rights.

I don't need to be instructed, who or what to hate, or fear, nor forced to be a part of their vision....I can do quite well on my own, thank you!....as you can also.

I didn't create the mess, nor did you, more than likely.....but we are stuck with the 'clean-up' and consequences. I say let those responsible, be accountable, AND stop promoting 'new fixes', which in reality are just more problems...all for a fee, of course!

Name a topic...and you will find a government program that initiated it, exploited it, and failed to remedy it...while encroaching their will, over our freedom!...oh, and making us pay for it, as well!

We are NOT in a recession....they won't even tell you the truth, either. We are in a depression, that they created, accommodating corrupt agendas, designed to make the 'corporate special interests' and the paid off politician PROFIT, in the short term, while we all suffer in the long term.

Now, I don't find any reason to be 'tolerant' or 'polite' so such actions, or purveyors and promoters of that kind of bullshit!. Do you?? ....even if they hide behind some politically correct concoction of 'good intentions'!

You KNOW people who are suffering from the damage of both party's corrupt policies, and there is NO reason, any further to make apologies and excuses for such foul behavior!...nor promote their messages of lying hogwash! Call it for what it is....and have a great day.....oh,......and don't forget to rinse the sink out, after your lunch!..(wink)

I have made note of your proposed claim-stake, but I should inform you, after due consultation with Mom, that your succeeding at acquiring that numbered post--or any numbered post-- depends on your own timely wit and dexterity of thumb. Each post in this long and tortuous trail known as MOAB has fallen exactly to the person who posted to claim it at the right moment, and ye timing of the moment when you press Submit will do more for your claim than all the huffery and puffery in Christendom, of which you have cornered a good share.

I got the claim staked and filed, Amos. Measured in meets and bounds, copper-bottomed and iron-clad, ready to resist any attempt you might make on it, and a battery of heavy long-range lawyers stand ready to defend it.

I did ask, originally, because the number has a deep sentimental meaning for me. Now I will defend, with glacis and redoubt, with carronade and fascines and abattis, that which means so much to me. For you will be bombarded with writs and injunctions, with summons and show causes, with subpoenas and filings, until you can take no more and finally agree that what is right is right -- and in this case, just.

The rotator cuff thing was in July of 2009, at least on the left side. Besides, I posted the claim in the tried-and-true traditional method: registered with the Land Office and warranted good by Smith, Wesson, Colt, and Winchester, Atty's.-At-Law (West Of The Pecos).

43259 HERE. I have been talking about this claim thing with the other numbers, at least their exponent representatives, and we have agreed not to put up with Rapparree's presumptuous manhandling of us. We are not lying around to be claimed, named, grabbed, labeled, subordinated, owned, or abused by any Bookie Come Lately. We are NUMBERS, sirrah, not mere chattel. Without us, civilization would come to a screeching halt. Without Rapparee, on the other hand, not much would change. We are clearly therefore, not about to be subjected to this hamhanded melodramatic owner-things shtick. We serve a Higher Purpose, and must remain free.

Hi, everyone, this is 43321 speaking to you from the Realm of the Ideal. All of us in the mid-43K area feel strongly that Rapparree should not have the right to grab us like he wants to do. He should show some respect! He's is throwing his weight around with all his talk of Colts and Remingtons and all, but those are all not really very scarey, being invocations of force andf mass and concrete objects from the Lower Realms. We numbers, though, you see, are denizens of a higher Order of Thought, and this is well documented since the time of Plato. If there were a God we would be like angels or cherubs or something. So Rapparree had better watch his step. One word from some of our higher exponents and he will find himself without height, unable to name his shoe size and with no way to know his blood pressure, which at his age is very important. So, like those old ROmans used to say when they were still trying to figure out their V's and X's, caveant consules ne quid detrimenti respublica capiat!!

Hello, all you fine upstanding Mortals!! 43327 speaking to you. As usual it is a golden time here in the Ideal, and we are all feeling rather fat and sassy having welcomed 2012 in in good form.

I wanted to speak to you about this whole "dibs" concept. You may have a misunderstanding about what we Numbers are. You may think we are simply human artifacts, conveniences to be used when needed to hold a place or keep a count, or keep track of something, and then to be ignored when no longer needed.

In this respect you are badly mistaken, if this is your notion. A Number is not a scrap of pragmatic servomechanism, but an Ideal Form serving the Infinite Capacity for Comparison and Differentiation. As an Ideal Form we are called upon to do almost everything from shaping circles to calculating the angles of rotation of the planets to measuring the babble of every brook, the decibels of each windsong, the brightness and incident of every beam of sunlight and moonlight--it's absoultely uncountable the diffferent services we pure Numbers serve in the ongoing regeneration of All the Universes.

So, given all that, it is a bit plebian of Rapparee to assert that he can claim one of us for his own purposes on some whim, or stroke of laziness, and I can only assure him that that is not how things work when you are dealing with Us. We require respect, courtesy, accuracy, precision and correctness in our dealings; nothing less will serve. The Numbers will tell, Rapparree, and we are always happy to be of service in all aspects your endeavours when the occasion warrants. But we will not be bullied or low-browed into submission, let us be perfectly clear about that.

Take fair warning, so that you do not find yourself cut off altogether from the ideal, unable to tell a circle from a triangle, and bereft of bank balances, body-mass indexes, and automobile speed. Woe to him who casts off the world of Numbers!

We have been watching you and find many disturbing things as well as some that are quite acceptable. We must now investigate both of these in greater detail and will come to a decision soon. We will certainly take into our consideration that your moon would become an orphan planetoid, bobbing along in orbit for a brief period and then falling into your primary. We do not want to punish the innocent because of the guilty.

Oh sing a song of Rapparree, No Tom or Dick or Harry, Who takes up arms to place himself In the hands of Doctor Parry! A doctor known for many charms Who's not allowed to marry, For bold Rapparree's allied himself With the colorful Gay Parry!

I can see it clear as a bell...the medic stretching his long rubber gloves, up beyond his hand, and the rubber snapping into place...and with a wry grin, while ol' Rapparree is bent over with his drawers dropped,.."Hello..I'm Doctor Proctor"...Rapparee smiles with anticipation......

NEW YORK (AP) -- A New York federal judge says the Clorox Pet Products Co. must stop airing a cat litter commercial that unfairly seeks supremacy over a competitor and makes "implausible" claims about a test involving feces in a jar.

The judge found it "highly implausible" 11 panelists would "stick their noses in jars of excrement and report 44 independent times that they smelled nothing unpleasant." He found the claims "literally false."

Oh, dear. I suppose, since you have demonstrated by assertion that High Culture is involved, I will withdraw my remarks about Dr Parry. I am sorry. I couldn't resist the obvious play, but Stilly started it. I take it all back. I am sure he's not gay. He's probably an old sobersides.